Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who uses symbols or symbolism.
- noun One who interprets or represents conditions or truths by the use of symbols or symbolism.
- noun Any of a group of chiefly French writers and artists of the late 1800s who rejected realism and used symbols to evoke ideas and emotions.
- adjective Of or relating to symbolism.
- adjective Of or relating to the Symbolists.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who employs symbols; one who practises symbolism.
- noun Specifically One of a group of French poets of which Verlaine was the most conspieuous member.
- Of or pertaining to the Symbolists; characterized by symbolism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who employs symbols.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective art, literature Of or pertaining to the Symbolist movement in late 19th-century and early 20th-century European arts and literature
- noun One who employs
symbols .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols
- noun a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols
Etymologies
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Examples
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Symons did much to educate WBY in French symbolist literature.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Symons did much to educate WBY in French symbolist literature.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Symons did much to educate WBY in French symbolist literature.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Symons did much to educate WBY in French symbolist literature.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Symons did much to educate WBY in French symbolist literature.
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Symons did much to educate WBY in French symbolist literature.
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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(And there are those who think the latter would more aptly be called a "symbolist" rather than a realist.)
Realism in Fiction 2008
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And there are those who think the latter would more aptly be called a "symbolist" rather than a realist.
Archive 2004-03-01 2004
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And there are those who think the latter would more aptly be called a "symbolist" rather than a realist.
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Novus with the recurrent angelic shapes in Shelley's poetry, but Shelley's shapes always remain genetically related to the revolutionary figure of Liberty Militant and in the Mask, at least, Shelley's "Shape arrayed in mail" is much less "symbolist" than Benjamin's dialectical images are.
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